----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cooper" <lug@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] FC8 X11 problem - GeForce 8400
> Rob Malpass wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a good tutorial on X11? I'm playing with FC8 and
>> thus far, I can't get the installer to recognise the GeForce 8400
>> installed. I've tried a few commands from my (fallable) memory like
>>
>> Xorg -configure
>> xf86config
>>
>> and so on, bnt I'm a bit rusty. At present, I can't even post the
>> output from the logs (without physically writing it down or kvm'ing it
>> from one box to another).
>>
>>
>>
> You can try the install in console mode and then change the xorg.conf
> later once fully installed using
>
> system-config-display
>
> Alternatively change the "Device" part driver to "Driver nv" and "init
> 3;init 5" or just reboot.
>
> My /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "single head configuration"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "nv"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720"
> "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> --
Thanks - I've tried editing the xorg.conf as well as that as well as
system-config-display and the kmod-nvidia suggested by James - no dice.
Can anyone tell me what diagnostics I need to look at (or post)?
FWIW it's a Zotac Nvidia GeForce 8400 (PCI Express). The motherboard does
have onboard graphics which I've not been able to disable (can't find a BIOS
setting) so when probing, it tries on VideoCard0 and VideoCard1, but nothing
from either. Not sure how (un)important that might be.
Cheers
Rob
